Our Theory of Change shows how we work towards our vision of healthy people and healthy communities. It explains the impact we want to have and the broad approach we will take to get there.

It supports our 10-year strategy and guides the work we will do over the next decade, as we work towards our vision. We will continue to monitor and evaluate our progress, and look forward to sharing more stories of our impact in the coming years.

1. What we believe

• We believe that:
• access to healthcare is a human right.
• many people are left behind because of growing health problems, higher living costs, and a complex healthcare system — especially those who already face challenges to staying healthy and well.
• the cohealth model delivers high quality care for all, that addresses the physical, social and emotional drivers of poor health.
• communities play an important role in shaping and creating tailored solutions to local needs.

2. What we stand for

• Our ways of working centre on delivering:
• care for all, improving health outcomes for individuals and communities.
• targeted responses based on population needs.
• a focus on the social determinants of health.
• financial efficiency and responsibility.

• In everything we do, we are guided by:
• whole of person approach.
• cultural safety.
• lived and living experience.
• trauma informed care.
• evidence informed practice.

3. What we do

• We deliver care for individuals, communities and society by:
• providing accessible, high quality and integrated health and social care services.
• collaborating with communities to design and deliver local services for local needs.
• health promotion and prevention.
• embedding lived and living experience in our workforce models.
• partnering with other organisations to increase our collective impact.
• advocating for system and policy change.
• using data to drive decision making and to communicate our impact.

4. What we change

Our long-term outcomes:

• Our long-term outcomes — Care for individuals:
• maintained or improved physical, social and mental health and wellbeing.
• increased health literacy and agency.
• increased participation in community.

• Care for communities:
• communities are empowered to shape health and social care responses.
• more culturally safe, inclusive and responsive health services focused on meeting local needs.
• health problems are addressed early and managed in the community.

• Care for society:
• cohealth is a leader in delivering place-based, person-centred care that is scalable and sustainable.
• the demand on acute services and hospitals is reduced.

5. Our impact

This leads to our vision of: “healthy communities, healthy people” whereby accessible, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare is a reality for all.

To learn more about who we are, and the impact we are striving to create read our Theory of Change.